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Galileo FOC

OBH System Bremen (Germany) Delivery of Battery, Battery Conditioning and Payload SCOEs, they allowed spacecraft battery charge and load simulation. Galileo will be Europe’s own global navigation satellite system, providing a highly accurate, guaranteed global positioning service under civilian control. It will be inter-operable with GPS and GLONASS, the two other global satellite navigation systems.

Galileo IOV

Thales Alenia Space Rome (Italy) Delivery of Simulator for thermal knives and payload. They enabled thermistor and load simulation. Galileo will be Europe’s own global navigation satellite system, providing a highly accurate, guaranteed global positioning service under civilian control. It will be inter-operable with GPS and GLONASS, the two other global satellite navigation systems.

GIOVE B (Galileo In-Orbit validation Element)

Thales Alenia Space Rome (Italy) Refurbishment of launch power supply SCOE’s. GIOVE A, the first step for the Galileo system, was launched in 2005 and a second satellite, Giove B, was launched in 2008 to test critical technologies and the most accurate atomic clock ever flown in space.